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Valutazione della fattibilità della chiusura dei passaggi a livello ferroviario a basso traffico – Un quadro per i gestori dell’infrastruttura ferroviaria per assistere il processo decisionale efficace
2 022
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Num. 11
Summary - This research paper develops and presents a framework allowing railway infrastructure managers to effectively assess which railway level crossing of their network may be critically reviewed... leggi tutto
Fair and sustainable railway transport at the service of the whole community
2 022
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Num. 10
Summary - The paper proposes some critical reflections relating to rail transport of people in Europe, with an indepth analysis on the Italian context. Some large numbers relating to high-speed... leggi tutto
Ecologia delle Infrastrutture Viarie a tutela dell’ambiente: concetti e criteri per una ricerca allargata alle discipline trasportistiche
2 022
Numero:
Num. 10
Summary - The paper moves from the scientific literature on Road Ecology and Railway Ecology to merge related concepts and criteria under a single definition: Ecology of Transportation Infrastructure... leggi tutto
From “advertising boards” ... to “signage system” History, design, planning and fixed message signage standards in Italian railway stations
2 022
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Num. 9
Summary - This article aims to offer an “overview” of the design and methodological criteria with which RFI, and before that FS, have addressed the issue of fixed message signage in railway stations... leggi tutto
Periodic equilibrium oscillations in the diffusion processes of transport innovations
2 022
Numero:
Num. 9
Summary - It often happens that the introduction of an innovation in the transport world is not accompanied by the adjustment of its characteristics to the increase in its utilizations, and that... leggi tutto
The evolution of national and international railway passenger services in european reality
2 022
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Num. 8
Summary - The European disciplines launched in the last decade of the 1900s to introduce competition into railway transport system, guarantee access to the infrastructure without discrimination and... leggi tutto
CEI EN 50119:2021-01 The new edition of the reference standard for the overhead contact lines
2 022
Numero:
Num. 8
Summary - The scope of this paper is to describe the new edition of CEI EN 50119, which is the reference standard for the overhead contact lines, focusing on its innovative aspects in comparison with... leggi tutto
Check rail of turnouts
2 022
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Num. 6
Summary - The check rails of rail turnouts are responsible for protecting the integrity of the crossing nose. The relative action on the axes in transit – whose frequency of occurrence is analysed –... leggi tutto
Trackwork-systems: design requirements setting and verification by a preliminary quantitative engineering model
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Num. 6
Summary - The design Setting-out and Verification Process are key pillars in the current railway context, trackwork- systems included. During typical activities, it is common to verify, in some... leggi tutto
Method for analysis and identification of adhesion coefficient through on-board sensors
2 022
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Num. 5
Summary - The digitalization of data and the technological development of systems in the railway field offer countless advantages, including the ease of reading, processing and transmission of the... leggi tutto

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Results of a heuristic model to evaluate perceived quality of railway travels
2016
Num. 10
Summary - The aim of this research is to identify the relationships and decisive variables linking service im- provement and demand generated in the field of regional railway services. The results... read all
Experimental study on the evolution of geometric characteristics of switches and crossings: application of the new RFI standard directives
2016
Num. 9
Summary - The article provides an overview of the results of a thesis about the application of the new regu- latory framework introduced by RFI on the control of the geometric characteristics of... read all
HS/HC Lines Italy L2 ERTMS/ETCS at Speeds over 300 km/h: project, analysis and trials for a test with ETR 1000 train on the Turin-Milan HS/HC line
2016
Num. 6
Summary - The article describes the design and realiza- tion of the amendments to the L2 (level 2) ERTMS /ETCS (European Rail Traffic Management System /European Train Control System) Control Command... read all
Interactions between hydrogeological instability and railway system: analysis proposal with synthetic approach
2016
Num. 3
Summary - This paper aims at contributing to the analysis of the interaction between the status of hydrogeo- logical instability and rail transport.To this end a descriptive statistical summary... read all
Effect of hot-dip galvanization on the fatigue behavior of notched and welded structural steel
2016
Num. 2
Summary - This paper investigates the effect of a gal- vanizing coating on the fatigue strength of S355 structural steel. While in literature some results from fatigue tests made on unnotched... read all
Vulnerability and accessibility of open rail routes for emergency rescue
2016
Num. 1
  Summary - This paper [1] examines the vulnerability and accessibility of railway networks in emergency condi- tions using the road system with particular reference to open air routes.The goal... read all
Optical sensors for the analysis of pantograph-catenary interaction
2016
Num. 1
Summary - In the present paper, the advantages of the use of optical sensors, and in particular sensors based on FBG (Fibre Bragg Grating), for the analysis of dynamical interaction between... read all
Capacity versus punctuality assessment procedures and accessibility measures for rail networks
2015
Num. 12
Summary - The article provides a review and a practi- cal comparison of capacity and punctuality assessment methodologies; it also identifies and evaluates a manage- able and streamlined approach to... read all
Automated People Movers with rope traction: engineering and modelling an innovative hybrid solution to optimise energy use
2015
Num. 11
Summary - At the beginning of the 21st century, several scientific studies drew attention to the unsustainability of the massive use of fossil fuels as the main global source of energy and this led... read all
Scheduling algorithms for rail operations and the automatic generation of timetables: application for railway capacity and perturbation evaluation
2015
Num. 10
Summary - The paper presents a tool for the assessment of the capacity of railway networks. This tool includes a first definition level that can be considered as microscopic, which permits train-runs... read all

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